Quotes About Knowledge

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies.

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows - and I needn't.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

A book is the only immortality.

Beware of the man of one book.

The writings of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

A wise and an understanding heart.

Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

It is a wise child that knows his own father.